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The difference between pre and post workout breakfast

There are always some debates whether pre or post workout breakfast or both should have done. Because some people are not hungry in the morning while other feels they don’t have sufficient energy to hit the gym. We will show you two parts in this article that is, one is research based and other involves in our daily life. Most of us know that what we should eat after the workout but have no clue about the pre-workout meal. And the bitter truth is it’s not an easy question.

What will happen if we skip breakfast?

According to research, it helps you to stabilize the insulin of your body and restores your glycogen, so if you skip your breakfast on time or delay it, then your blood sugar will drop. In case you don’t fill up your glucose stores in the morning, it will make you overly hungry and cranky.

Research-based knowledge

Breakfast is the most important meal of your day, but some of us postponed it till the end of the workout. According to a six-week study in Belgium where they use same training program for both pre and post workout meal, reports that workout before breakfast is more beneficially affected than after breakfast. They recruited 28 healthy men and to enhance the effect they improve their daily diets including 50 percent fat and 30 percent calories. They divided them into three groups where one group was not doing any workout whereas the second group will do before breakfast and third will do after breakfast. The first group men showed the sign of diabetes and developed unhealthy conditions as they didn’t do any workout but surprisingly the second group achieved result with no sign of weight gain and insulin resistance and burned more fats whereas third group people gained weight.

There are several factors are depending on our workout routine, and breakfast will determine the goal if we want to lose fats only or maximum performance or fat loss with performance.

Fat-loss

To lose the maximum amount of fats in your body, the best thing is to do the workout before taking any meal in the morning. But it’s difficult to do the workout without having breakfast because you may feel dizzy or vomiting and won’t able to perform your expectation level.

Performance

To maximize your performance and doing the best workout as possible then you should not skip your breakfast at any cost. If your workout program includes running or competing in a game, then you would not worry to eat a better meal, because your performance depends on the calories you take and here your aim is not to lose weight but to make your body stable as per the requirement. The drawback is you will consume calories before and after the workout and unable to lose fat to enhance your performance.

Fat-loss plus performance

Most of the people want to lose fat as well as an increase in performance but, failed measurably due to lack of strategies. Because losing fat and gaining performance can’t be done in equal time without having a proper diet plan. But here come to the points:
1) We can’t say anything as you don’t take any meal before workout.
2) You can do an experiment for a pre-workout meal that what types of food give you energy.
3) As you want to both fat loss and performance, so you need to careful.

Here are some tips for the pre workout meal:

Ideally, you should eat a small meal before one hour of exercise. The actual time depends upon how long you can do after a meal, but you should not wait too long after a meal, you may feel hungry. An ideal meal consists of some protein, carbohydrates and a little healthy fat. You may surprise about carbohydrates but it gives you energy and, you can consume it both before and after a workout. And the most important point is, you need more carbohydrates for the hard or long workout.